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HARRY ARONSON, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BOSTON SUPERIOR PETTICOAT COMPANY, OF BOSTON, IHASSACHUSETTS, A FIRM.

ADJUSTABLE SKIRT. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1918.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY ARoNsoN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Roxbury, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Adjustable Skirts, of which the following description, in connection with the accom panying drawing, is a specication, like characters on the drawing representing like parts. Y

This invention relates to improvements in skirts in which provision for a certain amount of elasticity in the body of the skirt is made which will permit more freedom in the use thereof and will also prevent the tearing away of the material along the line of stitching of the seams.

In the narrow skirts which are extensively worn at the present time considerable difficulty has been experienced by the tearing of the body portion of the skirt along the seams by reason of the fact that skirts such as silk skirts are made of relatively inelastic material and the lines of stitching which join the adjacent breadths come substantially in line with the warp threads of the fabric so that a slight tension placed upon opposite sides of the seam will cause a separation of the weft threads making a gap which destroys the good appearance of the skirt and will eventually result in the breaking away of the same.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide elastic seams for the body portion of the skirt connected at the top to a relatively inelastic but adjustable band whereby the skirt is held firmly about the waist of the wearer but is permitted a sufficient amount of yield in its body portion to allow of freedom in walking.

Another object of the invention is to provide an elastic means for connecting the breadths of the relatively inelastic fabric together which will yield upon the stretching of the garment without injuring or bursting the seams.

Other objects of the invention will more Vfully appear from the following description and the accompanying drawings and will be pointed out in the annexed claims.

In the drawings,

Figure l represents a skirt embodying one of the preferred forms of my invention,

Fig. 2 is a back view of the same.

The skirt as shown in the drawing comprises a waist band l of relatively-inelastic material which is desirably secured within the binding at the upper portion of the skirt, the body portion consisting of side breadths 2, 8, a front breadth l and a plurality of flounces 5 and 6 secured to the bottom of the body portion in the usual manner.

The adj acenty edges of the breadths of the body pprtion are secured together by an insertion 7 of elastic material preferably knitted fabric the edges of which are desirably secured to the edges of the breadths of inelastic fabric by two parallel rows of stitching 8, 9. By thus securing the edges of the elastic portion to the edges of the breadths of the inelastic fabric a strong seam is provided which cannot be broken by tension upon the cloth. As a matter of fact the elastic would ordinarily give way before the seams uniting the same to the inelastic portion break.

The elastic insertions\ desirably extend from the inelastic waist band to the top 10 of the upper flounce whereby the entire skirt body is made elastic so that it will yield to the action of the knees in walking or in sitting.

The flounce or flounces of the skirt are of inelastic material and may be plaited or gathered in the usual manner being stitched to the bottom of the body portion preferably by two lines of stitching, in this construction therefore the flounces present an inelastic bottom portion depending from the body portion well beneath the knees of the wearer. This construction provides a particularly desirable petticoat for use with narrow skirts which lately have been the mode, the flexible seams of the body portion of the skirt give suflicient elasticity to permit the skirt t0 yield as the knees and hips are bent in sitting, while the substantially inelastic flounces or bottom portion serve to so limit the step of the wearer that the delicate fabric of the dress which overlies the skirt will not be torn.

In the preferred form of the invention. disclosed the skirt is composed of three breadths and the elastic insertion at the back of the skirt extends from the upper edge 10' of the :[iounce to the bottom of the placket opening.

In order to provide for suitable adjustment of the waist band to t persons of different size the waist band is desirably provided Wit-li pluielity of festenings such as `:metal snaps eonipirising studs li .seeuied to tlie baudet one side ot tlie placket and sockets l2 secured to tlie band et tlie otliei Side of the pieelet.

it is to be understood that the embodinient of the invention disclosed herein is 'illustrative and that the saine may be einbodied in otllei` toi'ms Within the scope thereof.

Having tlius described my intention what elaiin' es new and desiie to secue by'i'ietters Patentis:

Al. i slti'it comprisingun'inelestic'zidjust able Waist band, u bodj'7 vpoi-tion having e `plutulity of bieudtlis of ineiestie materiel, nation stiips of insettioneira ielativelyeiustic niuteiriel: intermediate of 'und sewed to the adjacent edges otseid bieedtlis index tending downuuidly tnrougliout; substztntielly tile entire length of seidbody portion and il iiounce oi' ineiestio lnziteiiii- 'secui'ed to the bottoni of saidbodj' portion.

'2. 'A sltiit comprising in inelastic Waist band, e bodjvv poitfion lievi/'ing i plinelity ot bieudtns of inelastic. niuteiial secuied to said waistband and e liounce, strips oi insertion ot' elast-ic materiel intermediate of seid bieadtlis and extending iii'oin the weist bend to the dounce und secufied et their edges to tlie edjeeent edges of the bieudtlis o' seid inelastic iiizite'iiel by e plurality oi iows oit i stitching.

3. .fi loose geinient, suoli es e. pettiooat oi 'L e pluiaiity of goles @epilee of this patent may be obtained for five cents eeen, Toy addressing the f* united at their longitudinal edges by e yielduble seein structure, seid seein-structure being adapted to ieinoin in noiinel unstietolied position tliiougliout tlie mein body of tliegni'nient under ordinary conditions,

but to vabsorb shocks due to sudden oi'V et normal strains end tlieiebjT conserve the stitching of said seein-structure, Wliieli'con1 pilises a tienseisely elastic strip of mate rial extending between tlie adjacent inaigins oit' the gore-s Qnd'lmVing its edgesbiougllt rinto inte'iociting 'relation' Witli tlie edges of tliegoies and fastened 'tiieieto by 'rows of stitching.

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